Institutional Engineering, Management of Ethnicity, and Democratic Failure in Burundi

This article argues that constitutional engineering along consociational lines in Burundi – explicitly accommodating ethnicity rather than attempting to suppress it – was instrumental in reducing the political role of ethnicity, but that other endogenous and exogenous factors also played a role. Aft...

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Main Author: Filip Reyntjens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Africa Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/978